{"id":19,"date":"2007-06-15T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2008-07-23T01:43:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T06:43:49","slug":"buy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buy the book from<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0446580074?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thefortcookch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=044658007\" title=\"The Fortune Cookie Chronicles\">Amazon <\/a>(disclosure, I get a 4% commission via the <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliate-program.amazon.com\/gp\/associates\/join\" title=\"Amazon Associates Program\">Associates Program<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780446580076\">Barnes and Noble<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780446580076\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.bordersstores.com\/online\/store\/TitleDetail?detail=olr&amp;sku=0446580074\">Borders<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, authors watch sales ranking like daytraders watch stock prices. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampant-books.com\/mgt_amazon_sales_rank.htm\" title=\"Amazon Sales ranking\">article<\/a> from Rampart Books has some nice graphics explaining Amazon rankings. They are way more volatile than you think. Fluff.info has a <a href=\"http:\/\/fluff.info\/blog\/arch\/00000188.htm\">good post <\/a>on how he used an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exponential_decay\" title=\"Expotential Decay Model\">exponential decay model<\/a> to understand Amazon&#8217;s ranking function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy the book from Amazon (disclosure, I get a 4% commission via the Associates Program). Barnes and Noble Borders Yes, authors watch sales ranking like daytraders watch stock prices. This article from Rampart Books has some nice graphics explaining Amazon rankings. They are way more volatile than you think. Fluff.info has a good post on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2pydS-j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}